A Michigan federal judge declined to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sex harassment suit against automaker FCA, finding enough details supported the agency's claims that male workers inappropriately touched and sexualized female colleagues at a Detroit plant.
A proposed deal to settle a National Labor Relations Board case asserting that Amazon jointly employs its contract drivers — but without an admission that the retail giant is their joint employer — echoes the controversial end of an Obama-era case seeking to establish that McDonald's employs its franchisees' workers.
A Pennsylvania state lawmaker's plan to phase out the subminimum wage for disabled workers is the latest move in a wave of states that have ended or are working to eliminate the policy, despite the federal government going in the opposite direction, attorneys said.